Creating and Updating Version-controlled Database Schemas

Visual Studio 2005

To put your database definition under version control, you need an offline representation of that database. In Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals, that offline representation is the database project. The topics in this section provide you with information about database projects and how you work with them and their contents.

Contains topics that describe how you create the database project for a new or existing version-controlled database. This process includes importing a schema from an existing database or script into a database project.

Contains walkthroughs that introduce you to creating and deploying a version-controlled database, putting an existing database under version control, modifying database objects, and deploying changes to an existing database that is under version control.